C/2007 N3 Lunin is a magnitude 11.8 comet in Sagittarius. I imaged it four days ago under poor conditions so I tried again last night. I was able to make only...
Hi Dennis, Nice to see that even this 'Hard to get' comet could not evade your image capturing skills, well done! Keep up your great work in this field Dennis,...
While out observing last night with my Meade LX90 my friend turned up with his new Celestron Nexstar 6e.(i think he said 6e)We had a go at controlling it with...
I am using Skymap Pro 8 and I notice that when I try to do a seach to bring up an object, it can't find it. I recently installed the Sharpless catalog and I...
... From: "preciseengine" <brucep@...> To: <skymap@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:00 AM Subject: [skymap] External Data Catalog...
... to ... 400 ... not ... Chris - I seem to be having trouble installing the Sharpless Date Catalog. I can't get it to display even though I have it set on...
Hi Chris. The Sharpless Catalogue is a list of mostly Ha emision nebulae, many of them are fairly bright; as far as I know there are no dark Sharpless members....
... many of ... Sharpless ... all the ... showing ... Thanks Chris - That did it. when I select show all objects under magnitude selection they pop up. I...
... From: "preciseengine" <brucep@...> To: <skymap@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:00 PM ... If that's the case, it sounds as if the...
I have two versions of SMP, version 7 and 10. I've been using SMP for years, but am just now getting serious about connecting it to my telescope via ASCOM. I...
Hi Matthew, I cannot help you with that problem, but I can point you to a way that works for me. I have an EQ6 and use EQMOD with SkyMap Pro 11, no hand...
Hello all of you, I have a question related to the parallax as seen in the 'About Moon' in SkyMap 9 or 11 Pro. For instance on 1864 Jan 10th 16:48:33 UTC (JD...
Does Skymap display the sky correctly as seen through a scope? I would like to match my view through my Lightbridge to the display on Skymap. Thanks!! Dave...
Dave, Skymap certainly does do as you ask. On the "Annotation" toolbar, you'll see a telescope shaped Icon. Click this and it will open a dialog where you can...
Rick, thank you for your answer. I have used this, but I was wondering if Skymap was capable of automatically showing me what the eyepiece view would look...
I don't think any star chart can do that automatically. For instance, if you have a newtonian mounted on an equatorial mount, the tube can usually be rotated...
Hmm, that does make sense. I do know how some double stars (like Rigel for example) look in my scope, and I have tried to "adjust" Skymap, but Skymap does not...
Hi Dave, I would agree that SMP may not show all possible companions for double or multiple systems but it certainly does show a large number. Take beta Cygni...
If you have a list of these objects and their properties (position, magnitude, size, etc) then you can use DataPrep to compile the catalogue into a form usable...
Thanks for that Tim. I had downloaded the original document, but can make no sense of the data, far less getting it into SkyMap Pro. Can Skymap handle a TAR...
Hi John, a TAR file is a compressed file format, like a zip or a RAR file, you can open it with winzip or 7zip, inside there is a catalogue.dat fle with the...
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